{"id":5496,"date":"2024-12-21T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimesgriots.com\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:20:02","slug":"la-societe-secrete-la-plus-connue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/la-societe-secrete-la-plus-connue\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST-KNOWN SECRET SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ciwara society<\/strong> is one of the six secret societies of Bambara cosmogony. A society whose teachings are protected by taboos, the Ciwara society contributes to the social cohesion of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It teaches its members how to grow each plant, but also the need for collective farm work to secure the harvests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ciwara statue is thus attributed to the <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dances were linked to agrarian rites and therefore to the idea of fertility, fecundity and sowing. The dancers wear Ciwara crests* and mimic the work of the hoe in the fields with the antelope\u2019s horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ciwara crest*: a ritual mask in the shape of a roan antelope <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image: Bambara men wearing Ciwara crest masks during a Bambara initiation ritual in Mali. (Photo by Michel HUET\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)* https:\/\/www.gettyimages.fr\/detail\/photo-dactualit\u00e9\/hommes-bambara-portant-des-masques-ciwara-\u00e0-cimier-photo-dactualit\u00e9\/947830298 <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Ciwara est l&rsquo;une des six soci\u00e9t\u00e9s secr\u00e8tes de la cosmogonie Bambara. Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 aux enseignements prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par des interdits, la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Ciwara contribue \u00e0 la coh\u00e9sion sociale de la communaut\u00e9. Elle enseigne \u00e0 ses membres les modes de culture de chaque plante, mais aussi la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 du travail agricole collectif pour assurer les r\u00e9coltes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":6764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancetres"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/D56B1B8E-3F22-42C6-8678-CFC177210846.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}